8.21 Book Study Reflections by Shauntae Fitcheard https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d Identify a quote from the book that you will use as your motivation for change as an educator this year. en-us 2020-08-06 03:03:42 UTC 2021-03-10 17:04:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d8.png Why are our students so angry? bethany_ferrick https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691548559 Our children are fighting school systems that teach from racist and colonist narratives.]]> 2020-08-21 15:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691548559 "So why do we keep talking about racism if it's so risky and so painful? Because we have no choice. Because not talking about racism is killing us." https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691549325 2020-08-21 15:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691549325 "You have to get over your fear of facing the worst in yourself. You should instead fear unexamined racism. Fear the thought that right now, you could be contributing to the oppression of others and you don't know it. Do not fear the opportunity to do better." patriciabray https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691549374 2020-08-21 15:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691549374 "But those who demand the smoking gun of a racial slur or swastika or burning cross before they believe...are ignoring what we know, and what the numbers are bearing out: something is going on and it is not right." (I'm reading on my kindle so I don't have a page number...sorry! It says location 1173) jaimelbohannon https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691550018 2020-08-21 15:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691550018 "Systemic racism is a machine that runs whether we pull the levers or not, and by just letting it be, we are responsible for what it produces" https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691550178 2020-08-21 15:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691550178 "When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find opportunities to make real change." https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691551113 2020-08-21 15:06:10 UTC https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691551113 "We can get every person in America to feel nothing but love for people of color in their hearts, and if our systems aren't acknowledged and changed, it will bring negligible benefit to the lives of people of color" https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691551121 -Laura]]> 2020-08-21 15:06:10 UTC https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691551121 "Remember that it [having conversations about race] is worth the risk and commit to trying again. ... Just keep trying, because the alternative is your complacency in the continued oppression of people of color. " jennifer_chin https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691551667 p. 51]]> 2020-08-21 15:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691551667 This is Sally https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691552437 We often focus on the outcomes of the school-to-prison pipeline as the ultimate tragedy...but when I look at our school-to-prison pipeline, the biggest tragedy to me is the loss of childhood joy...Do not wait until black and brown kids are grown into hurt and hardened adults to ask “What happened? What can we do?” We cannot give back childhood lost. Help us save our children now.]]> 2020-08-21 15:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691552437 Recognize everyday wins, just as you would white children, not as rare exceptions or as otherin "triumph over adversity" stories, but as expected achievements of children just as capable as any other. paula_l_rushsmith https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691552818 2020-08-21 15:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691552818 "Poor people shouldn’t have to prove how much they deserve to have a roof over their heads and feed their children." jessicammiller https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691553633 2020-08-21 15:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691553633 Beth https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691558698 You will never fully understand the impact that sustained systemic racism has of people of color.]]> 2020-08-21 15:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/shauntae_t_fitcheard/37w5htydfs9awn6d/wish/691558698